Mayor Bill White voided the contracts on those who had rented out the George R. Brown convention center when he hijacked it to shelter Katina refugees from New Orleans.
Bill White looked in the camera and said “I DARE anyone to sue me over this decision”.
The city of Houston will do whatever it damn well pleases.
Please see my # 12, to ex 98C MI Dude. Clearly, I didn’t have all the facts at hand.
Perhaps some good will come of this, if the red light company wins a settlement, and the contract-voiding Councilors are made to pay for their transgressions, in some way. That might help shore up contract law. Of course, the lights still have to come down; as that’s what the people voted for.
That would be an exercise of emergency powers, and it would all depend first on whether the legislature had given the mayor that power, and if not, second, if, as the mayor said, any bumped contract holder would have the guts to sue the city for the relief effort.
Sometimes you have rights you don’t exercise, because it’s just too costly.